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CHARLES RV. ARNo LD,` or HAMILTON, ILLiNois.

` Lam PafmNo. 89,726, zaad-Ma@ 4, 1869.

WASH-Bouma,

The Schedule referred to n these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

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Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each `of 4the figures. 4

`My invention relates to a class of devices known as automatic wash-boilers, and consists in providing a suitable frame for supporting the clothes intended for washing Within the boiler, in connection with pipes ffor conducting water from below to the upper side of Y saidclothes, and so constructed as to allow of its application to any Wash-boiler. The washer A is composed of an external rim, B B,

`of any suitable metal, and of ak size and shape to fit -closely tothe inside of a wash-boiler, with strips across said rim, baslefashion, of cord wire, or narrovr` stripsV of auysuitable` material, secured at either end to the external rim. This frame, thus constructed,

stands upon feet attached to said rim B B, so that when the feet are resting upon the bottom of the boiler, the frame Will be about one-fourth of the depth of the boiler from the bottom of it.

At'eaeh `end of the `frame, and secured to'inner sides of therm, and to the strips. or slats, are spouts,

of, tin or other suitable material, O O, decreasing in size from the bottom to the top, standing upright upon the bottom of :the boden-with their tops curved in towardthe centre thereof.l These spouts are out diagonally at the bottom of each, from inside to outsideso as to leave a space for Water and steam to enter them, and may be made from two to three inches lat the largest diameter, and of such height as will bring their tops to near the-top of the wash-boiler.

When inuse, the frame is`placed in a wash-boiler, the feet resting upon the bottom of the same, and water! poured in, rising to the frame. Then the soiled clothes are placed closely in the boiler upon the strips or slats, and pressed tightly together. When the water boils, the clothes form a packing, the water and steam risein the spouts, ow out upon the clothes, and-soak down through them to the bottom, returning again constantly, thus thoroughly cleansing the clothes Without boiling them. v

This device is simple, cheap, and more eiective than any other.` l

I disclaim the use of perforated metal for false bottoms, and claim as my invention, andrdesire to secure by Letters Patent- As an article of manufacture, the reticulated false V bottom A, as above described, in combination with the spouts C U, for the purposes specified.

CHARLES R. ARNOLD. Witnesses:

E. vIO. A. OUsnMAN, Gmo. H. ARN0LD. 

